THE PRAISE OF GOD.
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Wurze des waldes
Spervogel. Twelfth century.
trans. by Catherine Winkworth, 1869
All growth of the forest,
The deep-hidden gold,
All secret abysses,
Thine eye doth behold;
In Thy Hand all things lie.
All the hosts of the heavens
Cannot fill up the meed of Thy praises on high.